58 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
because its flowers are imperfect from the exhibition standard. 
In this connection it may be well to mention that the system 
of pruning which is adopted has its influence. Gloire de Dijon 
is amenable to more than one mode of pruning. Broadly 
speaking, the long-rod system is the best where there is plenty 
of space, as giving the most flowers ; but spur pruning may be 
resorted to with advantage where space is limited, and it will 
probably give the finest individual blooms. 
A and D, Fig. 27 (p. 63), exemplify spur pruning. JD shows a 
branch as it might be seen in spring trained to a wall, with 
its side shoots; A represents an individual side growth from 
such a branch. The result of shortening the side shoots in D 
to the black cross bars is to remove the greater portion of the 
lateral growth, and leave only short stumps of afew buds each, 
on which flowering shoots will break for another year’s 
oom. 
It can hardly be said that this is the general way of treat- 
ing Gloire de Dijon, because it is rare for the plants to be 
cut at all. The majority of people leave their plants altogether 
unpruned from year to year. It is probable, however, that 
of the cases in which pruning is practised the majority favour 
this system or its modification. B. When the main stem ofa 
spur pruned tree gets very old or unhealthy, it may be cut 
right back to a dormant bud near the base in order to secure 
an entirely new break. 
In E and F we see, in somewhat different degrees, the long- 
pruning system. The one is adapted for the open, pegging 
down the branches as shown at q, the other for a wall. The 
constant succession of young wood maintained by cutting out 
flowered branches, and taking up young ones which have 
started from buds near the base, undoubtedly tends to free 
flowering. ; 
Pruning Pillar Roses. 
The pillar Rose is an important feature in modern Rose 
gardens. Not only is it a beautiful object in itself, but it 
(References to Fig. 25, p. 59.) 
F, a plant in its third season’s growth: w, the stem; x, the point of the 
heading or first pruning ; y, side branches from which long rods are 
originated for producing growths one year and flowering the next ; z, the 
point of tke second year’s pruning, to originate two vigorous shoots 
from each basal branch; a, strong growths trained to the roof trellis, 
2 feet apart (shown claser on account of the depression from the upright 
to the diagonal position in the drawing), and allowed to reach to the 
full extent of the trellis or longer, the laterals being pinched to one 
leaf as made; 4, the points of cutting away the rods after they have 
flowered in the following season ; ¢, the wall plate; d, the eave. 
G, a cut-back plant after flowering: e, the stem; f, the basal branches ; g, 
stumps left after the branches are cut back to about two buds; /, branches, 
which have flowered and are cut away. 
